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Motherboard lightning victim dies hard
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Mar 15, 2026153 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have an Intel board, and I really do not know which board it is, I built the machine for a relative, but he forgot to keep the documentation. Long story short, the computer was disconnected during a lightning storm, but a lightning strike travelled in via the ethernet cable (It was directly conne…
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Try two things (I'll start with the no-cost option first): Unplug everything, press the power button (in an attempt to turn it back on), then plug everything back in and power it on again; this is a "deep power cycle" and I am guessing that the extr…
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